ABSTRACT There has been a global acceptance of the need for students at all levels of education to acquire Information Literacy skills. Currently, there has been proliferation of information sources as information comes in various forms and it is prudent for every individual and especially students to be wise information users to assume greater control of their own learning. This study assesses the information literacy skills of students of Opoku Ware and Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High Sc...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the profile of readers of Graphic Showbiz, an arts and entertainment newspaper, especially as it relates to students and workers. Mass media audiences comprise individuals who select the media among other available sources to satisfy specific needs. For this reason one area of media studies, which has had a great deal of attention, is newspaper readership. Owing to the large number of subject areas that newspapers cover, it can be understood that readers...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine Sunyani residents' perceptions of Sky FM and Radio BAR news bulletins. Specifically, it was to determine which of the radio stations' news bulletins listeners perceived as more credible. The measures of credibility used were objectivity, fairness and balance. The study also sought to find out whether factors such as style of news presentation, importance of news and a listener's gender influenced credibility and preference of the news bulletins ...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a study into the cultural impact Akwamu-an Akan sub group, had on Peki-an Ewe sub group.The study adopted the qualitative approach to collect data and interviews were conducted with informants. Archival data was also sourced. Secondary sources such as articles in Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, unpublished theses as well as books The research traced the origin, settlement and growth of Peki. It did the same for Akwamu. The research went on to look at t...
ABSTRACT This study focused on aspects of the structure and sustainability of the fisheries in the Cross River estuary with a view to addressing the unsustainable fishing activities in the Cross River estuary. The physicochemical characteristics of water were analyzed in order to determine the quality of water and health status of fishes in the study area. These included surface temperature, pH, DO, turbidity, salinity, alkalinity, phosphate and nitrates. The catch rates and catch composition...
ABSTRACT Over the years healthcare has been identified as a major area of concern among the general population in Ghana. For that matter various policies have been put in place to respond to health needs, but to no avail. Using an explorative study within the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly of Accra, the study sought to ascertain if any elements of social capital could be relevant in the provision of quality healthcare in conjunction with future policies implemented in Ghana. Using a qual...
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of female chiefs although not new, is somewhat difficult to conceptualize in this predominantly patriarchal part of the world where traditions and taboos restrict women from such positions. This dissertation discusses female chieftaincy based on a case study of Nana Kofi Abuna V, of Essipon traditional area in the Western region of Ghana, looking at how her sex affects her roles and responsibilities as the ultimate ruler of the traditional area. The data used for the s...
ABSTRACT The Anglican Diocese of Accra (ADOA) has been confronted with the exodus of members from the church. From the time of the first indigenous bishop, various synods of the church have viewed it as a major problem. This tendency was attributed to the nature of the liturgy and the extensive way of worship. The liturgy even though repackaged and the worship style changed with the infusion of local instruments and choruses that meet the worship needs of the present generation, the anticipat...
ABSTRACT This study attempted to help bridge the gap between language and literature by using Halliday's Transitivity model in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as a framework to explore characterisation in Achebe's Things Fall Apart (TFA). Halliday (1994) believes that language is “functional and systemic” and it is used to make meaning (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014:23). The study focused on the process, participants and circumstances as well as patterns that are linked to Okwonko,...
ABSTRACT The rural-urban migrations of the residents from the Havana and Greenwell Matongo informal settlements, to Windhoek, pose socio-economic challenges of urbanisation. These challenges are various security challenges such as unemployment, poverty, crime and the negative effect on the environment. Therefore, it is important to recognise that migration, in excess, is both a symptom of national security threats and instability. Understanding the causes, determinants, and consequences thes...
Abstract This thesis uses phylogenetic and comparative data to test an hypothesis of adaptive radiation in the Cape grass genus Ehrharta Thunb. sensu stricto. Morphological data and sequence data from two noncoding regions of DNA (lTS1 and trnL-F) are used to produce a phylogenetic hypothesis for the tribe Ehrharteae. Combined analysis of these data sets resolves four principal clades that approximate the genera Ehrharta s. s., Micro/aena, Tetrarrhena and Zotovia and this result thus supports...
ABSTRACT Changes that impact organisations require employees to understand the responsibilities of self-management in order to contribute to the productivity of those organisations. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a self-management training programme for public servants in the Ministry of Education headquarters in Namibia. A two-group design was used, comprising an experimental group and a control group. A pretest, a post-test and a post-post-test were administered to both ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated into the effectiveness of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) succession planning using the case study of the Defence Headquarters in Windhoek. It is worth mentioning that the NDF was established by unifying and integrating two opposing forces of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West Africa Territorial Forces (SWATF) in 1990. Although the NDF started with the process of rejuvenating the force since 1996, only less than 10% of young ...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to investigate into social infrastructure and its contribution to rural livelihood in Mpohor District. To achieve the objective, various methods were used to collect data these include; Questionnaires, Observations, and Interviews. The findings of the the study was that; social infrastructure contribute to the socio-economical lives of the rural dwellers, it provides employment, it reduces migration and immigration in the rural communities, absent and inadequate lead...
Abstract Media studies has recently witnessed an upsurge in theoretical and empirical work that investigates the moral-ethical implications of the mediation of suffering. The research focus has largely been limited to representations of distant suffering by global media to audiences in the Global North. Contrary to the above, this work focuses on the mediation of suffering by media in the Global South. This study is underpinned by the understanding that suffering is also a proximal (local) ph...